Articles tagged with "iran"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
After 20 games the top three goal scorers in the Iranian Pro League have scored 33 goals between them. Reza Enayati of Esteghlal FC has ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
Okay I was wrong! It was not a rumor. Arie Haan did come to Tehran, and he did sign a coaching agreement with Perspolis FC. ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 31st, 2006
With its team heading home from the African Nations Cup tournament via the ever popular Cairo-Lisbon-Luanda flight, Angola's football federation announced that the Palancas Negras ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 31st, 2006
Ali Daei used to be the most prolific goal scorer in Iranian football. In his twenties and early thirties he scored goals with a dizzying ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
More than ten years ago the Dutch football legend Arie Haan came to Iran to discuss the national team job. After touring Tehran’s football facilities ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
A couple of Tehran sports dailies reported that the Iranian Football Federation has approached Czech Republic for a friendly. If true, this game will replaced ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
Okay, once again back to my favorite subject, Iran’s friendly games, or rather lack there of, in preparation for the World Cup.
News out of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 29th, 2006
My first memories of World Cup finals go back to 1974. That year Iran failed to make it to the finals, so the football crazed ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
Hamburg SV opened their second half of the season with a loss against Nuremberg in the German Bundesliga.
As some of you may know, Iran and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
There are only a few weeks left to the start of the AFC Champions League. Iran is represented by Saba Battery, a team based in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
Yesterday Iran defeated Germany in an international tournament with the final score of 1:0. One minor detail though, it was an Under-19 youth tournament.
Okay, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 25th, 2006
The news out of Italy this week was that Rahman Rezaei, Iran international defender, who plays his football for Messina of Serie A has obtained ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 24th, 2006
Before you read on I must warn you that this is written by a very frustrated and angry football fan! I am so angry that ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 22nd, 2006
Apparently Dinamo Zagreb has shown interest in Iran and Pas FC defender Mohammad Nosrati. According to Pas president Zagreb officials have not directly contacted them ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 20th, 2006
Reading about the latest brouhaha involving England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson and the fake Sheik makes me feel somewhat, but not much, better about the insanity ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 19th, 2006
In a move that shows a lack of courage, Ukraine has pulled out of its scheduled friendly with Iran on March 1.
Ukraine football ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 19th, 2006
I have an Argentine friend whom I love dearly. We always poke fun at each other by singling out the oddities in our ethnic and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 18th, 2006
Rumors out of Tehran via Germany earlier today suggested that Ukraine may be cancelling their friendly match with Iran scheduled for March 1.
Apparently Iranian ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 15th, 2006
Iran has a large pool of young talents who have the potential to be world class footballers. I dare to say that we may lead ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 14th, 2006
Maybe I am missing something here, but I honestly don’t get the politicians who are calling for a World Cup ban on Iran.
Don’t get ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 13th, 2006
There are less than 150 days, 147 to be precise, left to the World Cup and the Iranian Football Federation (IFF) does not seem to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 10th, 2006
No mohawks, mullets or long hair. Oh my.
That’s the ruling Iran’s Football Federation has handed down to its players as it tries to make ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 9th, 2006
While FIFA has rebuked calls by some members of Germany's parliament to ban Iran from the World Cup for its president's remarks regarding Israel and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 1st, 2006
The World Cup is still a little less than five months than five months away, but already there is plenty of action on and off ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 29th, 2005
While FIFA has rebuked calls by some members of Germany's parliament to ban Iran from the World Cup for its president's remarks regarding Israel and ...
